SUVA CORP. v. SMITH

17-328 consolidated with 17-418.

234 So.3d 965 (2017)

The SUVA CORPORATION, et al., v. Jane Renee Johnson SMITH, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

November 22, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Bradford , Stockwell, Sievert, Viccellio, Clements & Shaddock, L.L.P., P. O. Box 2900, Lake Charles, LA 70602, (337) 436-9491, COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT: Leon Lucien Languirand, Executor, Succession of Martha Ann Hardee Languirand

Michael S. Coyle , Attorney at Law, Post Office Box 636, Ruston, LA 71273-0636, (318) 254-8200, COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANTS/ APPELLANTS: Jane Renee Johnson Smith, Leon Lucien Languirand, Executor, Succession of Martha Ann Hardee Languirand, Trentice Van Johnson, Jr., Hugh Clark Hinton, Samual Jackson Hinton, Robert Hugh Johnson

William A. Jones, Jr. , Attorney at Law, Post Office Box 2644, Ruston, LA 71273-2644, (318) 255-2944, COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANTS/APPELLANTS: Hugh Clark Hinton, Samual Jackson Hinton, Robert Hugh Johnson, Trentice Van Johnson, Jr., Jane Renee Johnson Smith, Leon Lucien Languirand, Executor, Succession of Martha Ann Hardee Languirand

Charles E. Tabor , Gregorio, Chafin, Johnson, Poolson & Tabor, L.L.C., 7600 Fern Avenue, Building 700, Shreveport, LA 71105, (318) 865-8680, COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFFS/APPELLEES: The Suva Corporation, Hardee Family Properties, LLC, T. W. Hardee Properties, LLC

Court composed of Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux, Chief Judge, Sylvia R. Cooks, and Shannon J. Gremillion, Judges.


The defendants,1 heirs to real property located in Sabine Parish, appeal the trial court's finding of a mutual mistake in a deed executed in 1949 by brothers, Hugh and Thomas Hardee, resulting in the plaintiffs2 being declared the sole owners of tracts of land in question...

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